That's nothing. The thing Benjamin Franklin would have marveled at is how many things we refuse to do. If you told Franklin that within 9 months of us getting

That's nothing. The thing Benjamin Franklin would have marveled at is how many things we refuse to do. If you told Franklin that within 9 months of us getting hit by a new virus we would start mass-producing a vaccine, he would be impressed, but not all that much. But if you told him hundreds of millions of people refused to take the vaccine, he'd then be truly astonished. If you told Franklin that only 65 years after first flying an airplane we landed humans on the Moon, he would give an appreciative nod. If you told him we built and tested a thermal nuclear rocket engine and it was working better than one could hope, and then we completely shelved the project, he will admit that his brain is too small to comprehend that. Make sure you do not mention GMOs to Ben Franklin.